5-6Years Old Children’s Difference In Processing Emotional Speech Information

This research through the way of presenting a vocabulary with an emotional voice, theemotional voice as phonetic clues, vocabulary significance as the meaning itself.Twoexperiments are in preschool children as subjects, by presenting the emotional words and theneutral words which have emotional significance or not, to investigate the children’s reactionin processing of this two kinds of speech state.The results showed that: In processing the sound of neutral words which don’t haveemotional conflict conditions, compared with the male children, female children showedusing voice cue information processing bias model significantly. And in processing the soundof neutral words which don’t have emotional conflict conditions, compared with the negativeemotional speech, children also showed more favor of perception of positive phenomenon. Inprocessing the sound of emotional words which have emotional conflict conditions, comparedwith the male children, female children still showed using voice cue information processingbias model significantly,but the children’s preference to perception of positive phenomenonweakened.Through the above two studies, we draw the following conclusions:First, in processing the sound of words which don’t have emotional conflict conditions,there was significant difference in gender biased reaction, female children showed using voicecue information processing bias model while the male children was not.Second, compared with the negative emotional speech, children showed more favor ofperception of positive phenomenon.Third, in processing the sound of words which have emotional conflict conditions,female children still showed using voice cue information processing bias model significantly.Fourth, in processing the sound of words which have emotional conflict conditions,influenced by the semantic information, the children’s preference to perception of positivephenomenon weakened.